Wow -- finally a little respect for M! We were truly gratified to have this ANSI (1977) and ISO (1993) standard language "consecrated" by a mainstream publication ("A Brief History of Programming Languages," September). Today M is installed in tens of thousands of sites worldwide and is available on platforms ranging from Windows to Unix and mainframes. BYTE itself has indirectly featured the language twice in the last 18 months (in both cases spotlighting the 4000-node installation at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston). Of course, today it's hard to be taken seriously when the entire M language and its integrated hierarchical database management take up only about 512 KB.
Board of Directors
M Technology Association, Europe 100332.670@compuserve.com
Flexible C++
Matthew Wilson
My approach to software engineering is far more pragmatic than it
is
theoretical--and no language better exemplifies this than C++.
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